Tag: Piracy
Survey: DVD piracy on the rise in the UK
A new survey suggests that DVD piracy is on the increase in the UK. Armed with a wheelbarrow of scepticism, we bring you the results from an analysis conducted by Futuresource Consulting: 36% of Brits (who responded to the survey) have copied DVDs within the last six months compared to 25% last year. In that time, an average of 22 movies were copied, including 13 new releases, and a “significant portion” of people were copying from rental and borrowed DVDs.
BPI and VIrgin Media to send informative anti-piracy letters to customers who download illegally
Virgin Media’s collaboration with the BPI to crack down on the illegal download and sharing of music has moved forward a few steps.
Both organisations have created stock letters designed to inform and educate Virgin Media customers about the legal implications of stealing music off the web…
Microsoft hits software pirates with 21 lawsuits
Software giant Microsoft has filed 21 lawsuits against alleged pirates spread across 14 American states. Its goal is to protect customers from the risks of pirated and counterfeit software. It also mentions that software piracy has resulted in over $8 billion of economic loss in the US alone.
Don't go to (click on) Hong Kong – one-in-five .hk domain names are scams
Fear-spreader and paranoia-monger McAfee has raised panic levels of internet browsers to DEFCON 2 today, with its latest guidance on web sites that will do bad things to your computer when/if you visit them.
And it’s the Hong Kong domains – web sites ending in .hk – that are the biggest causers of trouble. Trouble like having pornography set as your home page, trouble like…
Police arrest former OiNK users
Six former OiNK users have been arrested by British Police over the past couple of weeks, all in connection with the up-loading of pre-release to the now defunct P2P music site.
Not ISPs' job to police the Internet, says CW's Charles Dunstone
Following last week’s news that Virgin Media may be the first ISP to police their customers in a bid to crack down on illegal downloaders, the chief executive of the Carphone Warehouse, Charles Dunstone, has said that it’s not an Internet Service Provider’s job to police the Internet…
Virgin Media may be first UK ISP to ban illegal downloaders
Following last month’s announcement of an official “three strikes and you’re off the Internet” policy, it seems that Virgin Media could be the first UK ISP to implement the scheme.
Though the record labels are pushing for such a scheme, there’s no definitive method for ensuring such measures are legal yet. The Government is expected to consult on this next month…
Japanese Internet firms join forces to kill net connections of illegal file sharers
While the British Government’s plans to tackle illegal file sharing remain at the Green Paper stage, Japanese telecoms companies have jointly implemented a scheme to cut off the Internet supply from known offenders.
According to the Daily Yomiuri Online (one of my daily reads, don’t you know), Internet users who repeatedly use popular file sharing sites such as Winny to download music and video will be sent warning emails which, if unheeded, will result in a loss of Internet connection…
Microsoft's innocence: teens won't download illegally if they know the law
Hats off to Microsoft for believing in teenagers. They’re not a bad bunch after all, are they?
Far be it from me to tarnish “all teenagers” with the same stereotypes, but I still had to laugh a little at the results of Microsoft’s latest survey, which suggests that teens wouldn’t download stuff illegally off the Net if they really knew what the laws were.
Nearly half of the seventh-to-tenth graders said that they weren’t familiar with the rules and guidelines for downloading images, literature, music, movies and software from the Internet.
French piracy web-banning scheme coming to the UK?
The lunatic French idea of disconnecting the web connections of those caught downloading pirated material could be coming to the UK.
John Kennedy of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, told Billboard he’s hoping UK ISPs will take voluntary action to kerb file sharing…
